Chapter 56 The carriage returns home, Jiang Ning compromises

After breakfast, Zhou Yi arranged a carriage to take Liu Mingan home, and the three of them parted at the gate of the Hong family.

"I originally wanted to keep you for a few more days, until my uncle's birthday is over, but I know you must be eager to return home." Zhou Yi said with a hint of meaning, and laughed twice, and then continued: "Brother Liu, I won't keep you. Let's meet again on the fifth day of next month, and meet at the bridge again."

Zhang Shun thought for a while and said: "In four days, the results of the Tongsheng exam will be announced, and Brother Liu, you will definitely be on the list, so the next time we meet, you will be Liu Xiucai."

"Brother Zhang, don't make fun of me." Liu Mingan smiled embarrassedly, then bowed to the two of them and said goodbye: "I'm leaving first, goodbye."

After watching Liu Mingan's carriage leave, Zhou Yi "swish" opened his folding fan and walked back with a smile on his face.

"Zhang Shun, this little brother is really talented, interesting, and very cute!" Zhou Yi exclaimed.

Zhang Shun nodded and agreed: "It's rare that such a wonderful person came from this small Lingshan Town!"

"Don't worry, Lingshan Town can't keep him. He looks noble." Zhou Yi said seriously.

"When did you learn to read faces? And noble? You talk nonsense..."

The two returned to the yard while talking.

Liu Mingan, who was being talked about by them, was in a trance with the portrait in his hand in the carriage. He swore in front of Zhou Yi and Zhang Shun that he regarded Jiang Ning as his sister, but he remembered clearly how he painted this picture last night.

Liu Ming'an could deceive outsiders, but he could not deceive his own heart. He did have some improper thoughts about Jiang Ning. He had not noticed it before when they were together day and night. It was not until yesterday when they were separated briefly that he suddenly realized his own heart as the longing for her surged in his heart.

"I, like... Jiang Ning!"

Liu Ming'an whispered softly, word by word, his voice as low as a mosquito, but his heartbeat was deafening.

Once he confirmed this, joy and sorrow surged in his heart.

The "Jiang Ning" on the paper looked at him quietly. Liu Ming'an couldn't help but reach out and wanted to touch the face of the person in the painting, but he retracted his hand when he was about to touch it.

Because of love, there is worry, and because of love, there is fear.

Liu Ming'an sighed and pressed the drawing paper to the place where his heart beat.

"Sir, we have arrived at Lotus Village. Which way do we go to your home?" The driver suddenly asked.

Liu Ming'an pulled himself out of his chaotic thoughts, opened the curtain and saw that they had indeed arrived at Lotus Village. He did not expect the carriage to be so fast.

"Thank you, please stop here." Liu Ming'an said politely to the driver.

"Right here? But Mr. Zhou asked me to take you to your home." The driver was an honest man. He touched his head and said with some hesitation.

"It's okay. We can stop here. There are only a few steps left." Liu Ming'an said gently to the driver.

"Okay then!" The driver stopped the carriage, waited for Liu Ming'an to get off the carriage, said "Sir, take care", and then turned around and walked towards the town.

It was just past 9 o'clock, and most of the villagers had already eaten breakfast and went to work in the fields. Liu Mingan walked all the way home without seeing anyone. But he walked slower and slower, and the closer he got to home, the faster his heartbeat became, like a wanderer who had been away from home for too long and was homesick.

Finally standing at the door of his house, Liu Mingan stopped, stood for a while, and took a long breath.

Only then did he feel his heartbeat slow down. Just as he raised his hand to push the door open, the door in front of him suddenly opened from the inside, and Jiang Ning's face came into his sight. Liu Mingan felt his breath stagnate.

"Why are you still standing outside after you come back?"

Jiang Ning's cold voice rang in her ears. Liu Ming'an's heart began to beat like a drum. She quickly covered up and said, "I was afraid that you were still asleep and I was afraid of disturbing you."

Jiang Ning raised her eyebrows slightly and looked at Liu Ming'an strangely.

Liu Ming'an looked away in panic, not daring to look at Jiang Ning. She walked into the house sideways and sat at the table to calm herself down.

Jiang Ning felt vaguely that Liu Ming'an's behavior was a little strange, but she couldn't put her finger on it. In addition, she had not slept all night and her mind was not very clear, so she didn't think much about it.

Jiang Ning followed him into the house, picked up the book "Ten Major Cases of Liang State" and continued reading. Now that Liu Ming'an was back, she could finally concentrate on reading.

Liu Ming'an secretly observed Jiang Ning's movements, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that she was concentrating on reading. He stood up quietly, spread out the painting and the poem in his arms and put them at the bottom of the box.

But how could this action escape Jiang Ning's eyes.

Jiang Ning couldn't help but feel a headache when she saw Liu Ming'an carefully avoiding her.

Liu Ming'an had a secret, but he didn't tell her. When

Jiang Ning thought of this, she suddenly felt a kind of sadness of "the child is no longer under the control of the mother when he grows up".

Liu Ming'an, who thought he had put the things away without anyone noticing, was completely relieved. He took out the book, paper and pen and started studying as before.

Not long after, the meat bought yesterday was delivered to the house. Liu Mingan went out to move things and was seen by several villagers. They said to him with half envy and half ridicule: "Liu Mingan, why do you have so much meat and fish every day? You live like a young master. Why do you still live in Lotus Village? Why don't you move to the town?"

Liu Mingan still smiled and didn't say anything. Jiang Ning in the house heard this and seemed to be thinking about it.

After a while, it was getting late. Jiang Ning put down the book and walked to the kitchen to prepare lunch.

"By the way, if you have nothing to do, go feed the rabbits." Jiang Ning suddenly turned around and said to Liu Mingan.

"Rabbit?" Liu Ming'an asked in surprise, then stood up and looked at the door of the utility room. There was indeed a cage there, with two big gray rabbits in it, with their big furry ears standing up and gnawing on a piece of vegetable.

"Jiang Ning, are you going up the mountain again?" Liu Ming'an asked anxiously as he entered the kitchen.

Jiang Ning was holding a chicken in her hand, and she only said "yes" when she heard it.

"Jiang Ning, didn't I tell you last time not to go up the mountain? No one has been there for a long time. There may be wild beasts. It's dangerous for a girl like you to go up the mountain alone..."

Jiang Ning listened to these words, raised her eyes, and clearly saw the worry in Liu Ming'an's eyes. She thought of what her third aunt had told her. She wanted Liu Ming'an to shut up, but the words stopped at her lips.

Forget it, Jiang Ning secretly told herself that it would be better to go gambling with the money from selling rabbits.

"I promise you, I won't go there anymore, okay?"

After a while, Liu Mingan heard Jiang Ning say this, and for a moment he couldn't believe his ears.

Jiang Ning actually compromised?

Liu Mingan was stunned and couldn't react until Jiang Ning asked again: "I have already promised you, do you have anything else to say?"

For some reason, Liu Mingan heard some coquettish and submissive meaning from this sentence, his face and neck turned red, and his heart began to beat wildly again. He didn't care to answer, and turned around and left the kitchen.

Jiang Ning looked at the direction where Liu Mingan left, frowned, and inexplicably thought of the word "escape".